WILD ONE by Vicki Allen-Hitt
Momma wiped her hands on her apron, opened the closet and picked up the shotgun.
FLYING LESSON by Daniel Kuttner
I was a student commercial pilot feeling my stuff.
I AM MY HAT by Howard Feigenbaum
Of the choices available, I found the hat, above all else, the most expressive piece of clothing.
THE DON'T GIRL by JoLynne Beuhring
I can’t remember when I first started thinking of myself as the Don’t Girl.
SPANISH GUITAR by Thad Buckley
I walk to my chair
Take her in my arms.
NUMBERS by Dixie Ayala
I checked in at the lab for blood work and was told I was number 65.
AWAY FROM HOME by Marj Charlier
Quickly, she slipped under a heap of paper and cardboard overflowing from a pack of trashcans at the corner. The man ran past her into the street.
LIFE ON THE MOUNTAIN by G.J. Prager
I woke up cuddled underneath a stack of blankets, gazing mindlessly into a dark room.
A DAY WITH MISS SULLIVAN by Suzanne Saunders
She showed me vases that had been made to look like the ones she had dug up from a site in Greece.
THE SPANISH LESSON by Lucille Hedges
The huge homemade cinnamon rolls were drenched in warm sugar frosting, and the coffee, fresh, hot, and ten cents a cup.
GROWING OOOOLD by Richard I. Harry
Each morning I wake up on the road to Oz,
A rusty tin man waiting for a can of oil
TEN TIMES GUILTY by Brenda Hill
Most victims aren’t stalked by their assailants.
THE DREAM by Eve Gaal
Though aware of his dirty, disheveled appearance he vowed to make an effort by talking to the first person he’d meet.
TROPICAL BURGER PARADISE by Rose Baldwin
At Mike’s Magic Burgers, the food and some of the people are magic.
AN ADDICTION by Sandy Schuster-Hubbard
It started innocently enough in childhood with a simple “See Spot run.” What would Dick and Jane do next?
EVENTIDE by Robert Steven Hanchett
A vagrant breeze, tugging at tall grasses and dancing through the trees
a portrait of the wind within the frame of its touch.
DANGEROUS FOREST by Katherine Tucker
Whenever it grew dark in the Dangerous Forest, Mother used to say that the trees themselves were frightened.
